Improvement in food for animals



5mm @atmt JOSEPH s. KIRK, or PITTSBUR-G, PENNSYLVANlA.

Letters Patent No. 85,313, dated Dcembm' 29, 1868.

IMIPROVEMENT in FOOD ron ANIMALS,-

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part oi the same.

To' all whom' it .clmce'i n:

Be it knoi'vn that LJOSEPH S; KIRK, of Pittsburg, in thecounty of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania,

have invented a new and-improved Article of Food'for Animals; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

The nature of my invention-consists in mixing, with ground hay, ground corn, ground oats, or ground barley, or all three of them, always 'having about two parts 'of ground hay to onset the other ground ingredients, and pressing theni all, when combined, into portable packages, of any desired shape, so as to render them capable ofe'asy handlnlg and transportation.

Grindinglray, instead of cutting it, causes it to lose its original harshness, and makes it a much softer and more easily-masticated food than'has been heretofore produced, afiording a greater amount of nutrimeut to all animals, irrespective of age. v

Hay, prepared in the manner- I propose, is materially reduced in bulk, the facilityof transportation thn'sbein'g increased, and it's value, 'as an article of l ner-- ehandisq-greatly enhanced, it weighingthirty-two and one-half pounds per bushel.

I disclaim 'the mixing of hayfwhen out or crushed,

with ground cereals, or the pressing of out or crushed hay into blocks or packages; but

What I do claim as rnyinv'ention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An improved article of food for animals, composed of hay, corn, oats, or barley, or, all of them, ground and mixed together in the proportions herein named,

, and pressed into suitable packages for transportation.

' J. S. KIRK.

Witnesses ,Gno. W. ,MCG'ILL,

ELI GRANT. 

